Stefan wrote: > > Hi Bernd, > qemu-img cannot be used on the disk image when the VM is running. > Please use virsh, it communicates with the running QEMU process and > ensures that the snapshot is crash-consistent. > Hi Stefan, thanks for your answer. i read that virsh uses internally qemu-img (http://serverfault.com/questions/692435/qemu-img-snapshot-on-live-vm). Is that true ? Bernd Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH) Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1 85764 Neuherberg www.helmholtz-muenchen.de Aufsichtsratsvorsitzende: MinDir'in Baerbel Brumme-Bothe Geschaeftsfuehrer: Prof. Dr. Guenther Wess, Dr. Nikolaus Blum, Dr. Alfons Enhsen Registergericht: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 6466 USt-IdNr: DE 129521671 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html